Alienware Aurora m7700 Review
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March 10th, 2006
Summary
Wide-Screen Display
Aurora m7700 notebooks deliver a 17” wide-screen LCD with a 16:10 aspect ratio, ensuring you never miss any of the action. Traditional notebook LCDs fail to deliver the entire story. The following comparison showcases a traditional LCD display and an Aurora m7700 wide-screen LCD display; judge the difference for yourself...
Exclusive Style
A staple of all Alienware notebooks, the design of the Aurora m7700 features integrated rubberized grips and illuminated AlienEyes that seamlessly blend into the notebook to provide a sleek and stylish design, ensuring you stand out in the crowd.
Innovative Dual Optical Drives
Featuring dual optical drive capabilities, the Aurora m7700 delivers desktop configuration flexibility within a notebook system. With options for CD-RW/DVD and DVD R/W drives, customers can enjoy watching a DVD movie while backing up files on a secondary optical drive.
Specs
Operating Systems
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Edition
Processors
- AMD® Athlon™ 64 FX Processors (1MB L2 cache)
- AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Processors — Dual Core — (2 x 1MB L2 cache)
- AMD® Athlon™ 64 Processors (512KB L2 cache; 1MB L2 cache)
Chipset
- VIA K8T890+VT8237A
Graphics & Video
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6800 Ultra w/ 256MB DDR3
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6800 w/ 256MB DDR3
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7800 GTX
Memory
- Starting at 256MB DDR SDRAM at 400MHz
- 2 dedicated SO-DIMM slots for Dual-Channel DDR Memory
Storage
- Externally accessible and easily removable:
- Dual bays for Optical Drives
- Primary and Secondary Hard-Drives
I/O Ports
- Externally accessible:
- Parallel:
- One parallel port
- Serial:
- One serial port
- Video:
- One DVI connector
- TV-out:
- One S-Video out connector
- TV-In:
- Video-IN Ports (TV-Tuner required, not included)
- Keyboard:
- One PS2 connection
- Mouse:
- One PS2 connection
- IEEE 1394:
- Two mini IEEE 1394a (4-pin) ports
- USB:
- 4 Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports
- Headphone:
- 1 headphone jack
- Audio:
- 5.1 channel out (S/PDIF) / Line-in, Microphone in
- Network:
- Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45
- Modem:
- Integrated 56K V.92 modem RJ-11
- Infrared:
- Infrared port for Data transfer
- Internally accessible:
- Primary IDE Channel
- Secondary IDE
- Dual SATA 150 connectors
Slots
- One PCMCIA Single-slot ACPI Card Bus (Type II)
- 7-in-1 Memory Card Reader (SD/ MS/ MMC)
Case & Chassis
- Exclusive Alienware Design and Color
- Dimensions (H x W x D): 2.1” x 15.6” x 11.7”
LCD Panel
- 17” WideUXGA 1900x1200 LCD Display
- 17” WideXGA+ 1440x900 LCD Display
Power
- Primary Battery: 12 Cells, 6600 mAH
- 220Watt Auto-Switch 220/110 AC Adapter